A half-century ago, in a classic exchange between two men on opposite
ends of the moral and political spectrum, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev
bragged to American Patriot and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson:

"Your grandchildren will live under communism!"
To which Secretary Benson enthusiastically replied: "If I have it my way,
your grandchildren will live free!"

Khruschev, undeterred, fired back: "Oh you Americans!
You're so gullible! We'll spoon feed you socialism until you're Communists
and don't even know it. We'll never have to fire a shot!" (1)

Ironically, history has to some degree vindicated
both men. A greater degree of liberty has arisen, if only temporarily,
behind the Iron Curtain, as was Benson's hope; but nevertheless,
Khruschev was also on target - truth be told, more on target.

For socialism is still alive and well in Russia,
throughout the old Soviet Empire, on all seven continents, on the isles
of the sea, at the UN, in its regional arrangements, and as Khruschev
predicted, in the United States.

Socialism is not in desperate retreat, as falsely
proclaimed by the establishment press, our state university professors
and our "all is well" don't-rock-the-boat political machines. On
the contrary; it moves forward confidently, aggressively, and for the
most part uncontested, everywhere in the world.

If Benson were alive today, he might have surmised
that communism was the victor in this ironic twist of events. For despite
communism's "demise," Benson consistently held that Communism was
but a tool in a game of political blackmail whose purpose was not to communize
the world, but to frighten the world into a comfortable merger under socialism.
(2)

That comfortable merger is the very real threat
of our day, and the ordained mediator of the final stages of that merger
is the Third Way; whose mission it is to bellow such a merger as the only
legitimate choice in politics, a place where social democracy and economic
prosperity may safely meet.

Yes, it is among the Third Wayers today that we
find people kooky enough to believe that mass murdering Communism has
something as lofty as social democracy to bring to the bargaining table,
and that the United States must of necessity bow before the economic clout
of countries like Communist China - granting butchers, avowed enemies,
and proven deceivers, privileges and political might that they do not
deserve, which privilege and power will certainly be used not to enhance
the economic freedom of their peoples, but to undermine the economic independence
of the United States; not to enhance our national security, but to build
up their military capability and political leverage against the United
States.

It has been the unfortunate task of this series
of articles to expose this, the Third Way, as a creature in hiding which
has come forth out of the badlands of socialism and communism, masked
and cloaked in futurism and social democracy. Evidence enough that this
is true has been presented.

Yet, proving the Third Way is a threat is the easy
task. Convincing hands-over-their-eyes-don't-tell-me-the-facts Republicans
that it is not just the Democratic Party, not just Blair, Schroeder and
the EU, and not just "reformed" communists in Russia and China, but their
"liberty" party as well - the Republican Party - which is knee deep in
the Third Way, is the far more daunting task.

Nonetheless, the claim moves forward, with no shortage
of evidence.

Building the case for this claim, the last two
articles in this series have:

1. Demonstrated that the most influential man of
1990's Republicanism, Newt Gingrich, has of his own admission been
for 30 years zealously involved with Alvin Toffler and the Third Way movement
in a leadership capacity.

2. Exposed the Marxist underpinnings of Toffler's
version of the Third Way, which so-called democratic philosophy Mr. Gingrich
said was at the core of his own political ideology and the ideology of
the Republican Revolution.

3. Pointed to the bold revelation that a trashing
of the outmoded US Constitution is the grand key to implementing this
strange democratic plan, which will replace or radically reform the US
Constitution with a totally 'new' and 'improved'
21st Century Democracy.

A question worth asking, before we proceed, is
just how vulnerable is the Republican Party to this socialist philosophy?
Surprisingly, leftist Alvin Toffler singled out the Republican Party,
not the Democratic Party, as the preferred Third Way party. Why? Because
the Republican Party had the largest contingency of centrists and moderates
- perfect fodder for a scheme which thrives on compromising politicians,
rather than dedicated ideologues to the left or the right. (3)

Fittingly, although Heaven rejects the luke-warm,
the Third Way recruits them - for a moderate is someone who loves everybody
and loves nothing. He is a servant of the world, not of high principle.
He is a seeker of the dingy side of self-interest, and the Third Way has
a sales pitch he can't resist - that is, a little bit of something
for everyone: progressive thinking, democratic rhetoric, social welfare,
"free" markets, corporatism, nationalism, and, yet, internationalism -
the kind of political plan which guarantees election or reelection, but,
deplorably, abandons the greatest system of government the world has ever
known.

The Plan

The Third Way plan to eradicate or drastically
alter the US Constitution rests on three pillars. 1. Minority Power. 2.
Direct or semi-direct democracy. 3. Decision division. (4)

Constitutional Eradicator #1, Minority Power

Toffler writes: "The first heretical principle
of Third Wave [Way] government is that of minority power. It holds that
majority rule, the key legitimizing principle of the Second Wave era,
is increasingly obsolete. It is not majorities but minorities that count.
And our political systems must increasingly reflect that fact." (5)

This is so, he says, because American conservatives
"[cloak] . . . anti-minority policies in the mantle of a mythical, rather
than a real majority." Communists, too, are failing to meet the needs
of minorities - but in their case, it is not by malicious intent, but
due to their failure to project their economic assumptions to a post "industrial
mass society." (6) The Third Way is the answer for both camps.

How Will the Minority Class Seize Power?

Minorities need to be put in charge, but how?

A. Toffler offers this advice: "We need new approaches
for a democracy of minorities - with methods whose purpose is to reveal
differences," or as Toffler puts it elsewhere,
a plan whose methods "multiply the number of minorities," better organize
them under one head into a "new majority" - and which by design - Balkanize
America (7) - as true to the old goals of Marxism as one can get.

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx wrote: "We have
seen . . . that the first step in the revolution by the working class
is to raise the proletariat (the minority class under capitalism) to the
position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy."

Probing for and proclaiming differences are indeed
all about divisive leftist politics, and as such these self-appointed
Third Way spokesmen for the people take the equally divisive stand that
"true" minorities are never conservative minorities.

This must change. Thus, black conservatives like
Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell are not black, and should be ignored.
Revolutionaries Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are black, and should be
icons. It also means that the poor, the unemployed, the uneducated, the
emotionally ill, the homeless, or anyone else who is disenfranchised,
alienated or sympathetic to the same, are representative of minorities
- and as such - should be targeted, given precedence, drawn upon for political
strength, and if necessary, called upon to perform acts of violence against
the existing order. (9)

B. While the Third Way busies itself multiplying
minorities, victims, and agitators - they are equally busy endeavoring
to convince us that they have nothing to do with the very rabble rousing
they facilitate. Toffler writes: "The rising activism of minorities is
not the result of a sudden onset of selfishness [or an elite conspiracy];
it is . . . a reflection of the needs of a new system of production which
requires for its very existence a far more varied, colorful, open, and
diverse society than any we have ever known." (10) That is, it is, as
it always is with communism - a "spontaneous uprising" - the supposed
creature of economic determinism.

C. Agitation is one thing, giving the agitators more voting power
is yet another. Both Gingrich and Toffler advocate exploring radical new
methods of making law, such as granting Congress only 50 percent power
over any vote, with the other 50 percent coming from a random sample of
citizens brought together via the Internet. Other possibilities to be
explored include: national referendums, policy by polls, drawing lots,
creating transient electronic communities, forming "social planning assemblies"
from coast to coast - and, believe it or not, setting up minority run
judicial systems, separate from the state, where minorities will
judge the crimes of their youth according to their standards,
which will no doubt, make the rule of law irrelevant, and racial divisions
deeper. (11)

D. Meanwhile, minority power's punch must
be aided by a new more civil, more compromising dialogue between the left
and the right.

"In yesterday's mass society . . . the 51
percent principle was a decidedly blunt, purely quantitative instrument.
Voting to determine the majority tells us nothing about the quality of
people's views. It can tell us how many people, at a given moment,
want X, but not how badly they want it. Above all, it tell us nothing
about what they would be willing to trade off for X . . .

"Instead of seeking simpleminded yes-or-no votes,
we need to identify potential trade-offs with questions like: 'If
I give up my position on abortion, will you give up yours on nuclear power.'"

Notably, Toffler makes it clear throughout each
of his books that he despises intransigence when it comes to conservatives
and conservative single issue advocacy groups, but advocates a stubborn,
"more than ordinary weight approach" to minority issues, which may understandably
have "life or death significance." (12)

Yes, the definition of bipartisanship is as you
may have suspected: 'Conservatives must compromise! Liberals must
fight to the death!'

Minority Power Spin Offs

Other Third Way policies which increase minority
power include the following: Open immigration, full voting rights, and
social service access for all immigrants and migrant workers as part of
free trade agreements. Education vouchers exclusively for the poor, paid
for, almost exclusively by the middle class. Faith-based subsidies (more
wealth transfers) for the benefit of inner city (mostly minority) churches,
which mandate social "tolerance" and thus, religious acceptance for deviancy
and socialism. Campaign-finance reform measures which target the elimination
of negative political speech and single issue advertising, even as they
elevate the influence of the minority/socialist promoting media. Tax cuts
or tax increases which punish the middle class, while favoring the upper
and lower classes. And the creation of temporary "non-geographical" minority
groups and organizations which cross state and/or national borders - and
yet possess, advisory, and or policy making/voting power. Regional primaries
which undercut the need to address small state needs, and, don't forget,
the recently espoused plan in "The Economist" to set up a sovereign Mexican
American enclave in the Southwest.

Constitutional Eradicator #2, Semi-Direct Democracy

"The second building-block of tomorrow's
political systems must be the principle of 'semi-direct democracy'
- a shift from depending on representatives to representing ourselves.
The mixture of the two is semi-direct democracy," says Toffler. (13)

Moving toward a more direct democracy is a key
element when it comes to minority power because more direct forms of democracy
ever have been and ever will be the preferred tool of choice of most all
revolutionaries. Because this is so, the American Founders established
a republic, not a democracy. Father of Constitution, Madison couldn't
have been more candid when he described democracy as violent, short lived,
mob ruled, and communistic in its attitude toward property, religion,
and social thought - being, in truth, the great "leveler," and "the worst
of all forms of government." (14)

"Ex" Marxist Toffler, and "tough-minded conservative"
Gingrich make no mention of what the Founders saw as democracy's
most obnoxious attributes. Instead they hone in on a far less important
issue - its impracticality in a lo-tech era - that is, distance and lo-tech
communication systems made in person
governing impossible. The Internet, they say, solves that problem.

Further, the only other objection the Founders
had, we are led to believe, is their fear about the emotional factor in
more direct democracies - which is a great fear indeed. Gingrich and Toffler's
solution? Random picks of citizens who will be given "10 hour courses,"
which will, in short order, make instant brilliant citizens, who make
informed and reasoned decisions to decide the fate of the greatest nation
on earth. (15) Go figure.

Constitutional Eradicator #3, Decision Division

Anti-gridlock decision division, or what Newt Gingrich
and now George W. Bush refer to as decentralization, should never be confused
with what the Founders described as federalism, or that freedom promoting
belief that state and federal governments are completely separate and
sovereign entities in delegated areas of responsibility - which system,
in fact, left almost all decision making to the states, the local municipalities,
and to the people themselves. Decentralization is not about that - at
all.

Left of center Third Wayer, Alvin Toffler, spells
out the truth.

"Incorporating larger and larger numbers in social
decision-making, facilitates feedback. And it is precisely this feedback
that is essential to control.
To assume control over accelerating change, we shall need still
more advanced - and more democratic - feedback mechanisms." (16) This
is about efficient models of control, not "an unquenchable thirst for
freedom." (17)

Howard Zinn, another fellow anticipatory democracy
laborer, agrees, but takes it a step further, when he confirms that this
flexible, futuristic approach to control is really what Marxist/Leninism
is all about.

"I believe, in the spirit of Marxism - to declare
what something is by declaring what it should be - Marxism assumes that
everything - including an idea - takes on a new meaning in each additional
moment of time, in each unique historical situation. It tries to avoid
academic scholasticism, which pretends to dutifully record, to describe
- forgetting to merely describe is to circumscribe.

"Marxism is not a fixed body of dogma, to be put
into big black books or little red books, and memorized, but a set of
specific propositions about the modern world which are tough and tentative,
plus a certain vague and yet exhilarating vision of the future . . . Most
of all it is a way of thinking which is intended to promote action." (18)

Quoting Marx, Lenin, and Mao - Zinn then proves
a point that any real student of communism should know, communism will
innovatively do whatever it takes, period. (19) Decision division/decentralization
is part of what it takes in a high tech world. More decision makers, more
networked individuals on the spot, so long as they are networked, equals
better control - and equally important - accelerated change.

Toffler nods: "As the rate of change speeds up,
the length of time that they [minority mandates] can be ignored shrinks
to near nothingness. Hence: "Freedom Now!" (20)

Decision Division Specifics

Toffler laments: "Some problems cannot be solved
on the local level. Others cannot be solved on a national level. Some
require action at many levels simultaneously. Moreover, the appropriate
place to solve a problem doesn't stay put. It changes over time."
(21)

The level that seems to be the most important,
however, is the one that shifts power up, not down.

* "Not enough decisions are being made at the transnational
level, and the structures needed there are radically underdeveloped .
. . Many of the problems that national governments are dealing with are
. . . simply beyond their grasp - too big for any individual government.
We desperately need, therefore, to invent imaginative new institutions
at the transnational level." And these institutions must have enforcement
mechanisms. (22).

More than a few decisions, powers, duties, and
enforcement powers need to be moved up. Here are a few examples:

Just what is left to move down is not clear. Most
of the above have the potential to effect and control every business,
every property owner, every individual on earth. Environmental policy
and international welfare alone, do that. The next goal, and most important
element in implementing the above, they feel, was Newt Gingrich's and
now George W. Bush's call for fast track authority for the President -
a power that would permit the Chief Executive to negotiate international/regional
treaties without interference from the US Senate. This is not about less
government, therefore, but as Toffler says, about "reducing the load of
national governments." (24) Indeed.

They do, however, want to move some decision making
down, and this is where "conservative" Republicans get excited. They shouldn't.

Take for instance, corporate democracy, and for
that matter the Third Way proposition that workers exercise democratic
control over unions - the latter of which seems palatable. To begin with,
the first mistake is to accept the notion that the federal government
has the right to step in and tell, or pressure through tax laws and or
regulations, how a company or a union must handle its employees or members.
This is unconstitutional in a republic.

The next mistake, is failing to think as Marxist's think.
Again, from Richard Flanks we read: "Participatory democrats take very
seriously a vision of man as citizen;
and by taking seriously such a vision, they seek to extend the conception
of citizenship beyond the conventional political sphere to all
institutions." (italics in original) (25)

Which is why Marxists love democracy. Democracy
assumes the people have the right to tell a business owner how he must
manage his own property - but no such right exists. More importantly,
the communist definition of people control or democracy is, in fact, state
control. Third Way decentralization, then, on the corporate level, is
a bottom-up formula to assist top down elitists seize control of all the
means of production. It's that simple - no matter what the rhetoric,
no matter what the short term benefits.

Other tactics of moving power downward are just as devious. Most
especially: Welfare reform - via federal block grants. Education reform,
via federal block grants. Restoring private charity - via federal block
grants. Creating local spokesmen (liberal single issue advocacy groups)
- via federal block grants. And most recently, the insane practice started
by President William Clinton and taken to a new level by President George
W. Bush of sponsoring Presidential consulting sessions with thugs. Clinton
consulted with street gangs, Bush let Marxist radicals in Puerto Rico
decide the fate of the US Navy's most critical military training
base. (26)

Putting Decision Division and Minority Power
Together

You need to think like a Marxist - that is, lust
for power - to figure out how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. If
you can - the puzzle is simple. When one Balkanizes a corporation, a state,
a nation, or a worldwide conglomerate of nations, even while creating
highly responsive, high tech tentacles everywhere - you are capable of
providing Johnny-on-the-spot solutions to racial, sexual, political, national,
and economic divides, which in turn intensify the centralization of power.

Toffler admits the success plan in pulling off
this revolution is about creating pressure from above - from "elites,
sub-elites, and super elites," who share their vision, and "pressure from
below," from the agitator, victim class, they inspire. Each will be utilized
to "place strategic pressure on existing political systems to accelerate
the necessary changes." (27)

It's the pincer strategy, and its working.
In fact, it is working so well, that these communist thinking elitists
are willing to throw around threats at you and me as if they were conquering
gods, and we mindless peons who had better kiss up.

The Warning of a True Revolutionary Brute

Toffler warns: "[In order to avoid a] blood-drenched
drama . . . much depends on the flexibility and intelligence of today's
[defenders of Second Wave civilization, that is the defenders of our Constitutional,
moral, and social order]. If these groups prove to be as shortsighted,
unimaginative, and frightened as most ruling groups in the past, they
will rigidly resist the Third Wave and thereby escalate the risks of violence
and their own destruction."
(28)

"To avoid violent upheaval we must begin now to
focus on the problem of structural political obsolescence around the world
. . . We must launch a public debate over the need for a new political
system . . . [launch] a vast process of social learning - an experiment
in anticipatory democracy in many nations at once." (29)

This is the thinking, this is the constitutional
eradication plan, this is the tough guy threatening of the Third Way -
the admitted "seminal" sourcebook of the Republican Revolution, the decoder
for everything Newt, and the game plan of the bipartisan, decentralist,
internationalist, compassionate conservative, establishment Republican
Party of 2001. Is there such thing as a Democrat In Drag? You had better
believe it.

Next week Steve begins to unveil the fine print
Third Way provisions of the Contract With America, a contract which in
many ways radically sought to alter our Constitution, rather than return
to its founding principles.

NewsMax contributing columnist is the senior
editor of the American Partisan, a widely published research writer, a
former Air Force communications manager, and a graduate student in constitutional
law. Contact Steve at cyours76@yahoo.com